A Perfect Dream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lucas Greene

 

 

I wake up on this beach with shadowed sands on it and behind me was a cliff that rises forever.   The ocean is replaced with dreamy, dark rippling water.   Wiping my eyes I wandered towards the water.  Standing there, just looking around I notice the world I am in is dark and nobody is there.  I walked over to the water and tried to swim in it but I started to get tired so I started to do a back float and noticed the water just made me float on its surface.  The feeling was that of lying upon a water bed when fatigued from a grueling hard days work. 

This was all inside my head. There was light showing through the cracks of my eyelids. There was also a strange but cool song that was drifting its way across the waters.  I closed my eyes and started to float to this song.  Then I saw sound just pouring in my mind and then I was in this concert room.  I didn’t see the band but the music was constantly sending me further into a sleep.  I leaned back my head and started to float off again. 

This time I rose and saw that I was floating upon the clouds. Then the sun started to sing a ballad to me.  I started to wave back and forth very contented like, and then started to fall.  I felt like I was falling forever.  Like on a magic carpet I floated through the air.  Then I woke to see that I was still in my head, sleeping, floating upon the darkened dream waters of my mind.  I started to walk onto the beach and another band appeared in front of me.  Then I began to dance to the music they were playing.   Then I opened my eyes and realized I was dancing with a beautiful woman that I have always loved.  Contented as I was I closed my eyes again, and after a few moments ,kiss and a caress I found myself to be in the middle of the universe just singing to the music that seems to keep following me here in my dream.  These moments of insanity were too rapid to think about as they were creating themselves without permission.  I spoke not because there was nobody to recall my feelings to in a place where nothing makes sense and is moving to fast to even comprehend myself.  These things meant nothing to me.  Not yet at least. 

I keep going deeper and deeper into this dream I am dreaming.  I started to waver to its rhythmically strong and yet hypnotic suggestion of sleep.  There are messages that forever will the peace of Him will follow me throughout the time and universe.  I started to walk through Geneseo with the woman that would not speak to me hand in hand seeing the happy and joyous moments of action and of thoughts just float past us two while we were still listening to the music.  I almost sing the song on my own now.  This feeling keeps getting stronger.  The feeling that I am getting is from the song.  I start to realize that in every place I have been in that a greater being is watching over me to make me feel safe.

I start to look for it, as I hear a gentle laugh that says, “I love you and I just want you to be safe.  It is not your time yet.  Live this dream I give you.  Be kind and give these feelings and the word of my greatness to the masses.  Let them escape to their own dream world paradise I will give them in due time.  Live by my word and by Me and I will give you eternal happiness.  This dream is just a sample of what is to come and nightmares are a sample of what is to happen to those who are not my children.”  Then I realize that it wasn’t talking.  I was just getting the feeling inside of me.  Then I go back to the dream while I am now lying next to the beautiful woman who loves me.  I am now holding her close to my body as to not lose her from this dream.  I know though that when I wake from this dream she will be gone.  I ask this greater being his name.  He answers, “I am that of the Bible whose name is I Am, the one in the same and the only.”  I ask, “Do I really love this woman that in reality does not love me right now?”  She said to me “Never will it happen.”  He speaks once again in your heart, “IN DUE TIME WILL I REVEAL HER THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE.”  I start to think.   Is this woman just a metaphor for all love I have for any girl.                         

Then out of no where walk a few of my friends.  One equipped with cigarette in mouth speaks and says, “I just want to help you.”  Then next floats in on a bean bag chair a kid definitely with an air about him of being high, he speaks saying, “We will be ready when the time comes.”  Next walks in a figure of short stature and he speaks saying, “You were my mentor but now I must go.”  He walked off with another kid that just appeared next to him.  Then the kid turned back to me and glared with an evil smile while they walked off leaving a silent but evil laugh among my mind.  I looked confused but being fatigued I did not care.  I turned back to the others.  There was another with them now that was skinny and leggy like a grasshopper.  He said, “I have been through what you are going through.” Then they start to walk with me.  When one of them started to talk to me the others acted as if they were all alone and standing still doing their own thing but floating along with us anyway.  The music is still there in the background as always.  Then it started to feel like it was getting late.  Weird though cause the sun never is there and the moon gets stronger in effect.  I then faded away and fell into a sleep all of a sudden while the music plays.

Then my eyes open while I am floating on the see of darkened dreams again.  Hey look there are my friends starting to walk over here.  They all in unison say, “Hey what were you doing?   We have been looking for you.”  I tell them of the dream I had and they say, “What are you talking about?”  While they are saying that the whole background faded into reality.

I am now sitting with the stoner kid.  He puts down the Xbox controller and says, “I have no idea what you just said.”  I get up and look around now noticing that I am now in the dormitory building.  I must have been just put here, I think in the back of my mind.  I walk back to my room and I go to sleep and then the next day I see Dave.  I yell, “Hey David!”  He turns around and I go up to him and start to talk to him in the entrance area of the dorm building.  We are sitting in this area while nobody is around.  I start to tell him the dream.  It is late at night of course.  He says to me, “That’s fucked up.  Dude you have weird dreams.”  I tell him, “It wasn’t a dream it was like a different universe or dimension.”  He then says to me “You high?”  “No way,” I replied.  Drunk?   No.  Go gets some sleep.  David then walks off.

All of a sudden Ken says, “Hey Lucas!” real loud out in his driveway while I am leaning against his car.  “What the fuck?” I mumble.  “What did you say?” Ken says.  Don’t know it seems like I just ended up here.  Ken chuckles, and takes a drag.  I say “dude it feels like we are always in a dream world when we are out here.  Did I say that before?”  “Yeah you did” he replies.   Then I proceed to tell him the dream while the music gets loud while time speeds through till the end of the dream speech.  He says,

“                                                                                   ” for literally I couldn’t hear what he was saying even though the words were pouring forth from his mouth in the normal manner that he spoke in. It was as if the words were lost in the air like memories from the time of being an infant.  Then all of a sudden he puts out his cig and it falls to the ground while I watch its glow disappear.  I get drawn in while Ken is now getting off the phone with his girlfriend and is walking into his house.  I am now walking towards the back porch of my house while I get sucked back into my body and I walk up the stairs to my room.  My mother says, “You got a message from someone.”  OK mom, night.  I then proceeded to stumble my way to my room while I turn on a song and pass out on my bean bag chair with the fans and my computer running.    

I wake into the dream world again.  I am floating again.  Now there are things coming out of the ripples.  That band I keep hearing the song from is now floating on a stage in the water.  I start to sing along awhile.  Then when I open my eyes I am now dancing once again with that woman.  I ask "Why does she keep appearing when the real one will never do this.”  She is love.  “Do I have to love?” I ask.  Then I get the feeling that I can’t change anything.  I am rhythmically put into silence. 

The next instant I blink and my eyes are open I see that I am now driving back from Ken’s girlfriends house with him saying stuff about work and his girlfriend.  He is all worried about something, I can tell it because of his tone.  We walk into the 24-7 Wal-Mart store in the cities.  I am all tired because it is like four in the morning.  I see a girl looking at the two exits and yell, “Hey it’s easy just pick one.”  She looks at me all confused and pissed all at the same time.  She is pretty hot I am thinking.  Then as I said "HELLO" as my goofy grin showed through.  She walked away and my friend starts to laugh and says, “That was awesome.”  I start singing the song from my dreams and he says, “What?”  I said, “Oh nothing, just a song.”  “OK, hey you want some chips?” he says as he points to a bag of Doritos that are two for five bucks.  The next moment I open my eyes we are at the register and I look around and we leave.  I got this bright idea to push around a shopping cart with my car, at least to the edge of the parking lot.  Ken says to me, “What are you doing?  There is cart there.” or something to that effect.  Then when we were driving home this huge ass deer comes running out.  I slam on the brakes and go, “AAAHHHH!” real loud.  Ken at this time is taking the first drag off his cigarette, and he started wheezing and starts to writhe as if a demon possessed his body.  I start laughing and said I have to pull off the road.  At that time the deer is walking off like the dumb animal it was.  I put the car into park and just sat there laughing for like ten minutes.  We talk and such and the only time I ever hug the dude is now.  Then we drive back slowly.  Then time like cut out and we were in Geneseo.  Then it does it again and we are at his house.  Then I walk to my car to leave and as I am doing that I end up walking up my yard to the back porch.  Then mumbled and said, “Man this is weird, but cool.  I wonder if this is all a dream or just some of it and the rest is real.  Uh, I don’t care.”  Then I go and put on the headphones and end up back in the dream world.